Murder defendant convicted in separate case

VENTURA, Calif. 
The man facing trial for the stabbing deaths of a couple and their unborn child in their Ventura County beach house has been convicted in a separate case of felony assault.

The Ventura County Star (
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) says a jury on Monday found 21-year-old Joshua Graham Packer guilty of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury for attacking a female security guard at Ventura County Medical Center.

Prosecutor Anthony Sabo says Packer will be sentenced Nov. 22.

It's his third unrelated conviction since his arrest for the May 20, 2009, killings of Brock Husted, his wife Davina Husted and the couple's unborn child inside their Faria Beach home. He's facing a death penalty trial for the killings.

He was earlier convicted of misdemeanor battery and felony dissuading a witness.